Ann Beattie

Books by Ann Beattie

About Me

Ann Beattie has been included in four O. Henry Award Collections and in John Updike's Best American Short Stories of the Century. In 2000, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story form. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Key West, Florida, and Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.

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Ann, i loved your story The Caterer that just came out in Narrative. I just got a story accepted by Tom Jenks of Narrative. I was going to take one of his workshops in San Fransisco but I ended up not being able to make it. Anyway, he said I had a lot of talent (which shocked me stupid on the phone with him) and wanted to publish one of the stories I'd sent him in his Story of the Week. He said he'd edit it and may ask me to make some revisions. Is this normal for an editor to do? Or is he just a really great guy that way. I'm a new fish in the pond. I have no clue.